Dancing With The Dirt

This is a hard time of year for me to be motivated to train. It is especially hard this year. I'm almost 4 months out of surgery. Under ideal conditions, I could start running next week. But until I get the stiffness out of my knee I have to put it off a bit longer.

It's been sad because I keep having a pity party for myself just because I'm not able to run yet. However, I've allowed it to affect my mood and motivation for swimming and cycling as well. These are two things that I can do as much as I would like to but I haven't gotten myself on a regular schedule yet. I'd ideally like to be swimming 3 times a week but I have been having a hard time getting myself to the pool more than once a week. The same with cycling. I need to get myself on the trainer every day to help loosen up my knee. However, recently, I've been tired either from lifting or the clinic and have been letting it slide. So I'm kind of unhappy with myself because I feel like that there is so much more I could be doing at this point that I'm not.

I have another race planned though to help get me motivated to get my knee moving again. My friend, Bree, emailed me this week and asked if I would be interested in running in Dances With Dirt with her team. There are a couple different races but this will be the one in Hell, Michigan in September. I'll be in the 100k relay. Each person of the 5 person team runs 3 legs of about 4 miles each. Now these legs have names like "This Sucks". I've been wanting to do this race for years but have never been able to get a team together. And now I'll be doing it costumed in underwear and a tutu. So now I have extra motivation to not only get my legs in shape for running but also also to handle off-road trails, rocks, water, and mud. It looks like once I'm able to run, I'll be hitting the trails for some training as well!!!

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